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A Bibliographical And Historical Essay On The Dutch Books And Pamphlets Relating To New-Netherland: And To The Dutch West-India Company And To Its Pos

A Bibliographical And Historical Essay On The Dutch Books And Pamphlets Relating To New-Netherland: And To The Dutch West-India Company And To Its Pos

M. Asher, G.

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QuotationsGeographyRevolutionary Period (1775-1800)

ISBN10: 9354500161
ISBN13: 9789354500169
Publisher: Alpha Edition
Published: Mar 18 2021
Pages: 342
Weight: 1.75
Height: 0.71 Width: 8.50 Depth: 11.00
Language: English
Before New York, there was New Netherland - a Dutch Atlantic experiment traced in fragile pamphlets, official papers, and maps that shaped empires. Follow the paper trail back. Asher, a meticulous nineteenth-century bibliographer, surveys the Dutch books and broadsides that recorded the Dutch West India Company and its possessions in Brazil, Angola, and beyond, creating an annotated historical bibliography and colonial pamphlet catalog you can actually use. More than a list of titles, it is a research reference guide to the arguments, anxieties, and ambitions behind seventeenth-century Dutch colonies. Even if you come for a single map or pamphlet, the cross-references invite browsing and discovery, page after page, without losing the thread of context. Readers of colonial New York history and atlantic world colonialism will find clear pathways into New Netherland source books, while specialists can track editions, contexts, and the afterlife of key texts across Europe and the Americas. The volume also speaks to early American cartography: maps and charts of New Netherland are examined alongside an illustrated facsimile edition of N. I. Visscher's map and the early New Amsterdam views, bringing the visual record into the story of print. Historically significant for preserving the bibliographical backbone of a contested colonial archive, this work remains invaluable to historians, genealogists, students, and rare book collectors seeking dependable leads. Out of print for decades and now republished by Alpha Editions, it has been restored for today's and future generations. More than a reprint - a collector's item and a cultural treasure.

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